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Speaker 4: Welcome to Cannabis Talk one on one's Financial Fridays with

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Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, today on the show is someone who

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Speaker 2: has literally done hundreds of interviews and podcasts. I've personally

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Speaker 2: watched most of them. All of them are about his past.

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Speaker 2: Before I introduce them, I'm going to take a moment

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Speaker 2: I want to focus on his future because that shit

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Speaker 2: is exciting. Ladies and gentlemen, sitting next to me as

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Speaker 2: a gentleman who has one of the most powerful stories

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Speaker 2: I've ever heard, in honor to interview this gentleman moved

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Speaker 2: from Texas to South central LA at five years old

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Speaker 2: with his mom, a strong single mom. At five years old,

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Speaker 2: he witnesses his mom shoot and kill her brother in

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Speaker 2: and that's where he gets his nickname. He's somewhat of

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Speaker 2: a child tennis prodigy, to the point where even Arthur

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Speaker 2: and at one point he's making over three million cash

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Speaker 2: He goes away for life without the possibility of parole. Now,

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Speaker 2: remember I told you he went in an illiterate best

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Speaker 2: documentaries on Netflix and Prime and the newest one hundred

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Speaker 2: percent legal cannipreneur opening a legal dispensary in La.

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Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, the real motherfucking Rick Bro. You know,

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Speaker 3: I apologize that it took so long for a great introduce.

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Speaker 2: Lady job on his birthday, he is having the grand

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Speaker 7: I mean, you know, the past has has been amazing,

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Speaker 7: everything that you could think about in America, you know,

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Speaker 2: Now, the only time I am going to talk about

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Speaker 2: There's so much of your story that revolves around entrepreneurship

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Speaker 2: You know, one of the things that Ricky did that

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Speaker 2: was this dude was really good with his money. And uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, even when he's making all this money, you're

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Speaker 3: Tacos it was it taco pizza or so pete.

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Speaker 2: So this dude's making like millions of dollars and he's

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Speaker 2: not getting high on his own supply. If I'm not mistaken,

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Speaker 2: Man, that is so crazy. There's so many parts here

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Speaker 2: because we want to talk about money and we want

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Speaker 6: Will I met Dedre.

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Speaker 7: I started my own brand about four years ago. La

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Speaker 7: Kingpin and while I was going around to all these

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Speaker 7: like you don't have to wear about my products that

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna come here and sell my product for you will.

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Speaker 6: On one of those.

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Speaker 7: Journeys, I ran into Dedre and she just started giving

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Speaker 7: because you know, I'm like, oh, I just go out

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Speaker 7: you know, and and to have somebody with with her

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Speaker 7: you know, when you when you're wrong. You know a

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Speaker 7: lot of times we get people around us and they

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Speaker 6: And they be like, it wasn't me.

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Speaker 3: I've been there.

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Speaker 7: So Ddre has has definitely been a blessing with me

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Speaker 7: for me, Uh, my store wouldn't be where it's at

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Speaker 6: People are going to be like, they're gonna be shocked.

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Speaker 6: They're gonna really be shocked about the knowledge that she had.

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Speaker 3: Well, welcome to Chelle Didre. What was your background? If

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Speaker 6: I actually started with the FEDS.

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Speaker 3: FED, like FED, FAD, federal government. Yeah, good lord, we're out,

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Speaker 3: all right, she's off the shelf, Please librate.

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Speaker 1: I've worked in every level of government. I was elected

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Speaker 1: of Cannabis Regulations, and that's where I got my insight

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Speaker 1: of licensing ordinance, regulations, laws compliance.

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Speaker 6: And then I went into a dispensary to.

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Speaker 1: See how the dispensary worked, and then I studied it

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Speaker 2: And so were you Were you the pioneer? Were you

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Speaker 2: social equity programs or what role did you play for

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Speaker 2: the FEDS and when did you cross over to our side?

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Speaker 1: Well, I was I audited contracts government contracts for the FEDS,

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Speaker 3: So, now how did you guys meet Was it part

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Speaker 1: We met at a dispensary that I was working and

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Speaker 3: That was that was it? One thing led to another

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Speaker 7: Said, you know, she would she would call me and

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 7: She told me that that I didn't have grand bags

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Speaker 7: and she was like, you should do grand bags for

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Speaker 2: Now, what official role is she playing within within the dispensary,

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Speaker 2: the group, their organization, or she have a defined role

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Speaker 2: or what what do you is it kind of a

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Speaker 6: She's the one I got orders from her.

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Speaker 3: I got to feel those here.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think I think she really does everything. She

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Speaker 7: hired the staff great, great staff. I love my staff.

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Speaker 7: You know, one of one of the most important things

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Speaker 7: I don't mind going into the into the the dispensary.

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Speaker 7: It's it's like an environment that is welcoming, and the

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: You probably don't know this, but the first time you

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Speaker 2: here to Cannabis Talk one and that day Blue and

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Speaker 2: I mean, growing up in poverty, you didn't have you know, sta,

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Speaker 2: I think it was a Brandon Bruce Lison came over

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Speaker 7: The good coach is like one hundred and fifty bucks

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Speaker 2: And speaking of tennis, without getting kind of off track

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Speaker 7: And yes, one of my kids can play tennis because

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Speaker 3: That's really cool, man.

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Speaker 7: And I understood, you know, I understood what they were

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Speaker 6: You know, going to going to school with holes.

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Speaker 2: You know, the little things like you know, even correlating

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Speaker 2: but you didn't apply to that. You didn't have the

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Speaker 2: Do you have fancy watches and cars? Are you still

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Speaker 3: Not?

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Speaker 2: Shit, Well she's in charge of that now, so is

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Speaker 3: Maybe i'd be the birthday present?

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Speaker 6: Right?

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Speaker 7: Well, well, you know when when when you're in business

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Speaker 6: You know, we didn't have.

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Speaker 7: All the money that you know somebody would have where

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Speaker 7: So what we're doing is we doing this grassroots bootstrapping.

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Speaker 2: And I'm gonna tell you, man, I'm glad you mentioned

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Speaker 2: I don't give a fuck. You know, I'm going to

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Speaker 2: So I know what it's like to take money. And

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Speaker 2: Now we've got multimillion dollar lawsuits against them. Not all

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Speaker 2: money is good money. If I could do it over again,

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Speaker 2: I would kind of bootstrap everything because when you control everything,

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and it's better.

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Speaker 7: It's better when when when you're in total control you

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Well, out of all the lessons that you have from

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Speaker 6: I mean, business is business.

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Speaker 7: You know a lot of people they get it mixed

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Speaker 6: Don't know where you at.

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Speaker 7: I don't know where you live, you know, because basically

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Speaker 7: I may not know your last name, I don't know

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Speaker 6: Just do business with you. Will. In legal business, you

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Speaker 7: Me you got everything that you me to to to

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Speaker 6: With the cannabis, it's unbelievable.

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Speaker 7: I mean, I'm just like I just more were every

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Speaker 2: One Air what Air quotes, Uh, that's one of my favorites,

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Speaker 3: Those lessons I got you here today.

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna telly that right now.

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Speaker 7: After that I had I had had a good attorney,

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Speaker 7: Well in my case, you know, I was selling drugs

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Speaker 7: that I don't know about.

441
00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:27,359
Speaker 2: And you weren't Rick Cross, you had other names. Ala says,

442
00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:29,960
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so they're looking at the story where they

443
00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:32,000
Speaker 2: see and you're walking out, just sitting on the curR.

444
00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,359
Speaker 6: Have multiple driver's license.

445
00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:33,920
Speaker 3: I love it.

446
00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:36,560
Speaker 6: I have friends that work at d n B.

447
00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:40,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

448
00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:42,520
Speaker 7: So so when they when they when they finally catch me,

449
00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:44,640
Speaker 7: what they do is they take me from state to state.

450
00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,199
Speaker 7: So even though I was going to different states, I

451
00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:52,280
Speaker 7: was never what they would say taking out a handcuffs.

452
00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:53,960
Speaker 6: I was always in hand So.

453
00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:56,520
Speaker 3: They're connor airing you and kind of trying, you know.

454
00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:01,560
Speaker 7: But I said, you know about see the movie when

455
00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:03,520
Speaker 7: they take the tape and put on the wings, like

456
00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:05,159
Speaker 7: we all sitting in the air plane, we're looking out

457
00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:06,520
Speaker 7: the window and they taping up the wings.

458
00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:11,479
Speaker 3: Ship with duc takes. That's right.

459
00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:14,400
Speaker 7: Yeah, So so when they catch me, they just take

460
00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,600
Speaker 7: me from state to state, you know, all the places

461
00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:18,920
Speaker 7: that had had these secret indictments.

462
00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:20,680
Speaker 6: And once I.

463
00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:24,159
Speaker 7: Lose the first case. No sense in fighting. You know,

464
00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:25,920
Speaker 7: can y'all make a deal? You know, can we make

465
00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:27,800
Speaker 7: a deal. So I wound up making a deal in

466
00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:30,119
Speaker 7: a couple on the stage and they ran all the

467
00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:34,359
Speaker 7: time concurrent. So when when I get out of prison

468
00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,520
Speaker 7: and my friends set me back up, you know, I

469
00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:41,439
Speaker 7: was only out six months and and and uh they

470
00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,159
Speaker 7: they set me back up, and I go back to prison.

471
00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:45,760
Speaker 3: To basically get himself out of a gym.

472
00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:47,680
Speaker 6: Correct and to get me to date.

473
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Speaker 2: They're like, oh, they were, they were on a mission

474
00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:51,000
Speaker 2: for you from the last show.

475
00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:53,040
Speaker 3: I remember they were. There was no way.

476
00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:55,119
Speaker 6: Well, you know, I have that special come once you

477
00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:55,719
Speaker 6: embarrass them.

478
00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,000
Speaker 7: Then after Monday Night Football, I had a special come

479
00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,800
Speaker 7: on after Monday Night football, like It's crazy on ABC

480
00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:02,800
Speaker 7: with Ford Sawyer.

481
00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:04,720
Speaker 6: What was the name of that show.

482
00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:06,200
Speaker 7: I can't even think of the name of the show,

483
00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,080
Speaker 7: but it came on right after Monday Night Football. So

484
00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:10,879
Speaker 7: I guess the cops then, and then you know, I

485
00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,080
Speaker 7: had those cops that got arrested. Yep, you know, thirty

486
00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:14,800
Speaker 7: five cops got suspended.

487
00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:17,480
Speaker 3: For planning the Kilo, on planning all that shit.

488
00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:20,720
Speaker 7: Planning drugs, lying on search ones, just the whole nine yard.

489
00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:23,480
Speaker 7: So when I got out, I guess they wasn't really

490
00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:27,879
Speaker 7: happy with me. And uh, my friend Danilo Blandon, who

491
00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:30,720
Speaker 7: I thought was my friend, agreed that he could set

492
00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:35,440
Speaker 7: me up and they started waving like seven hundred kilos.

493
00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:37,160
Speaker 7: We got seven hundred kilos.

494
00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:37,679
Speaker 6: You broke.

495
00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,040
Speaker 7: Uh, you're trying to do that youth center. Why are

496
00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,040
Speaker 7: you asking everybody? Dang gonna help you help yourself? And

497
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,159
Speaker 7: finally I broke week, you know, and I took the

498
00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,600
Speaker 7: bait after six months.

499
00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,439
Speaker 2: So you're in now. And the legal process that you

500
00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:56,680
Speaker 2: use to get yourself out? Was it you or did

501
00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:58,679
Speaker 2: you reach out to like legal aid or how did

502
00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:02,320
Speaker 2: that work that he a life conviction gets overturned?

503
00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,480
Speaker 7: Well, I was reaching out to everybody, but I found

504
00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:06,160
Speaker 7: the issue myself.

505
00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:07,800
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, so, had you not learned to

506
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,000
Speaker 2: read or writer? Or had you not self educated? Herself

507
00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:12,000
Speaker 2: got to the point where right now you're at still

508
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:12,520
Speaker 2: still be there.

509
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,520
Speaker 7: Yeah, because even my lawyer he said that the issue

510
00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:17,040
Speaker 7: that I brought up was in valid.

511
00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:19,920
Speaker 3: Wow, so he shot you down.

512
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:23,720
Speaker 6: It went something like this year. The law says.

513
00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:30,880
Speaker 7: A continuous criminal free is different from a career criminal

514
00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:33,959
Speaker 7: see a career criminal with somebody who goes to prison.

515
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:38,000
Speaker 7: Let me start over. A career criminal is somebody who

516
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 7: commits a crime, goes to prison and gets out, commits

517
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:49,600
Speaker 7: another crime, goes to prison, get out, and then he

518
00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:51,640
Speaker 7: goes it commits another crime.

519
00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:55,639
Speaker 6: There's three strikes. That's easy, three strikes right.

520
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,719
Speaker 7: In my case, I had an eight year run of

521
00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:04,280
Speaker 7: selling drugs with no arrests. When they finally arrested me,

522
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,639
Speaker 7: all the people who couldn't catch up to me said, oh,

523
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,479
Speaker 7: we wanted to we wanted to rain over here. So

524
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:14,680
Speaker 7: so mine was different because mine wasn't intervening arrests. And

525
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,159
Speaker 7: the lawyers and the judges and everybody, they missed that

526
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:20,520
Speaker 7: important point that it has to be intervening arrests, meaning

527
00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:23,960
Speaker 7: that you have to be punished, you know, brought to

528
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,440
Speaker 7: your senses and then allowed to go back out. And

529
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,399
Speaker 7: in my case, I was only punished one time. And

530
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,199
Speaker 7: they thought, since you know, I went to jail, and

531
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:40,800
Speaker 7: technically I went to jail in Texas, Cincinnati, and Louisiana,

532
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:47,720
Speaker 7: but those cases were all part of a continuous criminal spree.

533
00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:49,600
Speaker 6: And and and that was.

534
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Speaker 2: The loophole that was kind of identified that even the

535
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:53,680
Speaker 2: attorney hadn't identified.

536
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:55,600
Speaker 6: None of them.

537
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:57,399
Speaker 2: You know, y'all, I told you I want to talk

538
00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,240
Speaker 2: about the past. But the reason I brought all this

539
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:01,600
Speaker 2: up is the money component to it and the corruption

540
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,400
Speaker 2: component to it. Because what what most people don't realize

541
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,160
Speaker 2: is the FEDS and the cops, especially the LAPD, were

542
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:09,800
Speaker 2: not doing this out of the goodness of their heart.

543
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,679
Speaker 2: They passed a rule back then, and obviously you know

544
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 2: they're they're raiding sash houses with millions of dollars. They said,

545
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:19,560
Speaker 2: whichever agency raids the house keeps the money. So all

546
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 2: of these cops all disappears, literally have memos. I mean,

547
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,640
Speaker 2: there's guys that have gone on record. This isn't hearsay,

548
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 2: this isn't gossip. These guys were told, hey, we got

549
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,520
Speaker 2: bonuses to hit. Y'all want the new jerseys? You want

550
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:31,320
Speaker 2: the softball league?

551
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 6: Hit it right on the head.

552
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:35,880
Speaker 7: They they knew when I got out of prison, they

553
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 7: took most of my stuff already. Yep, when I got

554
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,160
Speaker 7: out of prison, I was really broke.

555
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,440
Speaker 3: You were living with your mom.

556
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:47,800
Speaker 7: They came and was offering me seven hundred kilos, knowing

557
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 7: I didn't have the money to buy seven hundred kilos

558
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 7: and then they gave us the dope on credit.

559
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 6: The police had to do.

560
00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 2: We know you did was connect people. At that point

561
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 2: I saw hell, they didn't have money for seven hundred kilos.

562
00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:59,080
Speaker 6: No, that's all I was doing. I was just good.

563
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:00,480
Speaker 6: They said I was doing broker.

564
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 7: Yep, they call me the broker because I introduced my

565
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,879
Speaker 7: crime etico to them forming in the DA.

566
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

567
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:10,239
Speaker 2: And if you guys really want to get your hair

568
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:13,000
Speaker 2: steed up on your arms, you know, just google civil

569
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,440
Speaker 2: forfeiture laws right now. And this is something that nobody's

570
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 2: talking about. I don't even want to talk about it

571
00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:19,399
Speaker 2: because put targets on your back. But literally, there's a

572
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:21,479
Speaker 2: law that says they can just raid your shit, keep it,

573
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:23,280
Speaker 2: and you got to go spend money to go get

574
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 2: your money out. There's so many people that get caught

575
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 2: up in civil forfeiture now, and civil forfeiture basically entices

576
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 2: these agencies to go after people. Raid your cash, radiar,

577
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 2: bank accounts, keep your money, boot.

578
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,440
Speaker 6: Your drug quantity. You know, they boosh your drug quantity too.

579
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 3: Talk about boosh your quantity? What do they do with

580
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,840
Speaker 3: crack and cocaine? Okay, if you're white, you get caught

581
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,879
Speaker 3: with cocaine, you're a misdemeanor crack, which is just cooked.

582
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 2: Cocaine is now one hundred times the penony penalty. So

583
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,240
Speaker 2: it's easier to go after the minority communities, it's easier

584
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:53,440
Speaker 2: to go after the where you know who you're trying

585
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 2: to target him. There's layers to this shit, guys, and

586
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 2: I don't want to go down the conspiracy rabbit holes,

587
00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 2: but all the shit that I was saying years ago, man,

588
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 2: let's say, oh, it's conspiracy, No, dude, it's not. You know,

589
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:06,040
Speaker 2: there's levels to the corruption to the government that that

590
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 2: made this shit happen between the you know, I'm not

591
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 2: even going to the CIA that Iran contract for Reagan.

592
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 2: Do all the shit these guys did to this gentleman.

593
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 6: You know how much money they spent to take us

594
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:15,440
Speaker 6: to trial.

595
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 3: I don't even want to wager, but tell me, but

596
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:18,679
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say ten.

597
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 6: Million back then, three million dollars.

598
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:21,919
Speaker 3: Which is ten million today.

599
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 7: Literally, they they spent three million dollars to take us

600
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 7: to trial to guys who technically wasn't even selling drugs. Yeah,

601
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,320
Speaker 7: because I wasn't selling drugs and I had no intentions

602
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,360
Speaker 7: on selling drugs, but for the government to come in

603
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:39,119
Speaker 7: and spend that type of money, And why wouldn't you

604
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 7: give us some money to get a business started. Why

605
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,159
Speaker 7: don't you help us start a business where we can

606
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 7: be productive citizens. And that's something that you know, I

607
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,120
Speaker 7: wrestle with that today, like what the hell is wrong

608
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,199
Speaker 7: with our system where we'll spend more money on in

609
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:54,359
Speaker 7: conservation than we will don't fixing the problem.

610
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:56,880
Speaker 2: Well, I will tell you, and I haven't really shared

611
00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 2: the story too publicly, but I was traveling through Texas

612
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,200
Speaker 2: and that's never been a jail. I'd never been arrested

613
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,639
Speaker 2: in my life. And I got caught with the weed

614
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:07,199
Speaker 2: pen for sleeping, I mean literally instead of eating ambient

615
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 2: and shit that makes you crazy or as annex. It

616
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 2: was just a CBD weed pen. I get caught with

617
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 2: that and a half an hour all that had a

618
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,959
Speaker 2: prescription for. They arrest me, keep me in three days,

619
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,879
Speaker 2: hit me with two felonies for one vay pen and

620
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 2: one thing. It took me two years, tens of thousands

621
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 2: of dollars, and I had the money to get out

622
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 2: of that situation. I can only imagine the kids that

623
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 2: I met in there while I was locked up for

624
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,959
Speaker 2: three days. These kids were there for like a joint,

625
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 2: you know, a half half a gram of marijuana.

626
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 7: So you did three days for a damn pin a

627
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 7: pen bro and arrested at therefore moving around three times.

628
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, pails in comparison the shit you've been through. But

629
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,919
Speaker 2: it showed me that it's monetization for incarceration. Incarceration for monetization.

630
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,400
Speaker 2: It's one big system. And the dude said, we get

631
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 2: paid three hundred dollars a day to keep you in here.

632
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 2: So even after the third day and they gave me

633
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 2: papers that you're out, I'm like, all right, I'm out there. Well,

634
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 2: it's going to take another twenty four hours to process

635
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 2: my process. What is a pigeon carrier that's giving you?

636
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:01,120
Speaker 2: It's a fucking computer button, man.

637
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:01,240
Speaker 5: You know.

638
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 2: So you know, before we hit the break, I do

639
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 2: want to ask you a coore caestion on the legal

640
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:09,119
Speaker 2: side is obviously the Rick Ross story for y'all that

641
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 2: don't know. So while my man is locked up, one

642
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 2: of the correction officers is who we now know as

643
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,920
Speaker 2: the rapper Rick Ross, who is all flashy and flossy,

644
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 2: you know, in multi millionaire this and that and this, dude,

645
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:24,680
Speaker 2: were you guys at the same facility, right, No, No,

646
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 2: But he's a correction officer. He hears the legend of freeway,

647
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,920
Speaker 2: he hears the stories, and he's like, well, this dude's

648
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 2: locked up for life.

649
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:34,640
Speaker 3: Fuck it, I'm going to take his name.

650
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 2: His name is like Albert, you know, Wilford, some bullshit

651
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 2: name he's got.

652
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 6: He changed.

653
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 3: It wasn't even like Richard Roths. You know.

654
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 2: He takes his name, takes his stories, raps about the

655
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 2: stories that he'd heard through the system, and you get out,

656
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 2: and he thinks you're not going to get out. So

657
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 2: one day you get out.

658
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 7: What happens, Well, I contacted him and tried to work

659
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 7: some out witting, but it didn't work. And Lord, you

660
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 7: came up and I suit him.

661
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Speaker 2: He sued him in the federal court, and you know,

662
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 2: and I know what it's like. In federal court. Takes

663
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 2: a couple of years. Then they're like, well, you got

664
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Speaker 2: to go down to the state court. If I'm not mistaken,

665
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 2: then the state court takes all this time to come

666
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 2: up with some bullshit about Okaya statue limitations and First Amendment.

667
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 2: And but I think I think you know that for

668
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 2: the rest of his life. That's going to hang over

669
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 2: his head because especially as you've been out now and

670
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 2: the stories are getting out and people are talking about it, you.

671
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 3: Know, did you actually deal with him or did you

672
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 3: deal with his people?

673
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 7: I never dealt with him, never, and none of his people.

674
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 7: But I mean, when I look at it, I'm like,

675
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 7: his legacy is going to be the guy who took

676
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 7: Rickross's name literally, and the way that my pasana is

677
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 7: going right now, it's probably gonna be embarrassing to him.

678
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 3: You know. One of the young bucks here, Emily Misfits

679
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 3: over here, I'm telling her the story. She's like, well,

680
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 3: I kind of know who he is. And she's like,

681
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,239
Speaker 3: is that is that why you know Rick?

682
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 2: While I say you coming out with new ship because

683
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 2: you know he's going to be cloud That's true? You know,

684
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 2: maybe now if Rick did roll up at our party

685
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 2: or something for your birthday, it would it be weird?

686
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 3: Or is it just? Hey man, what it is?

687
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 5: What it is?

688
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 6: It's been so long, right, Yeah, I don't have no problem.

689
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 2: And that was the other thing I remember from the

690
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 2: last episode. Then I looked at you and I said, Hannah,

691
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 2: and you had just told.

692
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 3: Us the story about what the tops had planted on.

693
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 3: You looked at me and you said, I said h.

694
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 3: I said, man, how are You're always smiling and you

695
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 3: don't have a chip on your shoulder. You're not pissed?

696
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Speaker 6: Would you say no?

697
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 2: He's like no, because there's too much to be happy

698
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 2: about in life.

699
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Speaker 3: We're gonna go to break.

700
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Speaker 2: When we come back, ladies, gentlemen, I'm gonna talk to

701
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 2: you guys about social equity. That how you guys if

702
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 2: you're going through shiit, what he's going through, if you

703
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 2: just think, you know, how can I come up legally

704
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Speaker 2: in the game. We're gonna talk to our resident financial

705
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Speaker 2: expert on social equity. To be right back on financial

706
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Speaker 2: Fridays on Cannabis Talk one on one.

707
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Speaker 4: We'll be right back with more financial Fridays with the

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Speaker 4: Inside Investor Tony K. Make sure you follow Tony at

709
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Speaker 4: the Insider Investor. Welcome back to Cannabis Talk one on

710
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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: If you're listening to the show, you already know the

714
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Speaker 2: story of somebody who can you know, turn nothing into

715
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Speaker 2: something change in their lives forever. That's why I'm so

716
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Speaker 2: excited to talk to you guys about a company that

717
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Speaker 2: I'm a part of, which is Master Mentors Live. Ladies

718
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Speaker 2: and gentlemen. We're coming to a city near you. We've

719
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Speaker 2: had Texas, Saint Louis, the Carolina's Fort Lauderdale.

720
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Speaker 3: Literally a state near you, We're coming to you.

721
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Speaker 2: Check it out. Master Mentors Live. This is a free

722
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Speaker 2: cannabis workshop. We're inviting you to learn everything in the game.

723
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Speaker 2: If you want to talk about how to raise money,

724
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Speaker 2: start your own white label brands, are you own dispensary,

725
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726
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727
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728
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Speaker 2: We're now back with my men, Freeway Rick Ross, the

729
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Speaker 2: real Rick Ross.

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Speaker 6: Yes, yes, you know.

731
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Speaker 3: Coming back from this break and this Master Mentors thing. Man,

732
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 3: this is something that you know, the founder of this.

733
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 2: Company, Blue started out of out of passion, you know,

734
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 2: he's second.

735
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 3: Third generation, you know, old school, and.

736
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Speaker 2: It's something that we've ran about sixty four thousand plus

737
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 2: people through this program. COVID hit We had to shut

738
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 2: it down and some of the largest dispensary owners, Hemp Farms.

739
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 2: You know, some of the brands in here that you

740
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 2: see have gone our students of his that actually say, hey,

741
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 2: you know, if it wasn't for Blue, if it wasn't

742
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 2: for Joe, if it wasn't for the program, the Frankino

743
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 2: and these guys that set up, we wouldn't be we

744
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 2: would have this business. And if something that's you know,

745
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 2: I wanted to talk to you about, because we've we've

746
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 2: now have a mentorship program to do cannabis legally and

747
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 2: I can't tell you and we're using one of my

748
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 2: Facebook or Instagram at accounts, and I see so many

749
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 2: of these kids that I'm looking at their instagram that

750
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 2: are you know, they're showing guns and weed and they're

751
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 2: thirsty for legal education, just a way, just somebody to

752
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 2: show them. How do you think coming out of prison,

753
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 2: if you had something like a master mentor's life, you

754
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 2: would have got to where you're at today faster having

755
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Speaker 2: a mentorship.

756
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Speaker 6: Like much faster.

757
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 7: I have to learn the week business the hard way.

758
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, again, back in the day I smoked.

759
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 7: We you know, we had what skunk and ty, but.

760
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 3: What we call swa.

761
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 7: Nothing like it is now, but absolutely if I would have.

762
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 7: I mean, just having Deidre now is showing me how

763
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 7: how little I know about marijuana, you know, and and

764
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 7: the thing about me that I'm able to do and

765
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 7: and I think more people need to pick that up

766
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 7: is being humble and being willing to be taught.

767
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 3: Yep.

768
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 7: You know so many people they're not willing to be taught.

769
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 7: You know, they got a chip on their shoulder. And

770
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 7: I'm the man, you can't tell me nothing. And I

771
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 7: think that that's the wrong way to go into business.

772
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 7: You know, you have to let the experts do what

773
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 7: they do.

774
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 4: You know.

775
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 2: I'm really glad he responded that way because I kind

776
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 2: of just duffed it on your team today. But it's

777
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 2: something I've You've inspired me to kind of start trying

778
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 2: to give back a little bit more. And how can

779
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 2: we take more kids and give them the opportunities that

780
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 2: you've created for yourself. Know this this education platform that

781
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 2: we've built, there's multiple legs to it, but all in all,

782
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 2: the costs about eighty thousand dollars. Sometimes while for financing

783
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 2: and get creative with how they can fund it. But

784
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Speaker 2: I'd like to offer you a scholarship to give to

785
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 2: anybody that you choose, a fully funded that we'll pay for.

786
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 2: We'll pick one, you pick one, We'll do two free.

787
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 2: The first scholarships that we've ever announced here at CT

788
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 2: would have one for master mentors live. And we'll make

789
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 2: it fun, you know, we'll make we'll make it engaging.

790
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 2: I don't want to just give it to anybody. I mean,

791
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 2: obviously you can pick wherever you want, but let's make them,

792
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:32,799
Speaker 2: let's make them work for it. Somebody can you know,

793
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:34,839
Speaker 2: together we can come up with a quick little form

794
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 2: why you should qualify, you know, what you'll do to

795
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 2: deserve it.

796
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 3: But I think that'd be really cool, man.

797
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 2: It'd be a great way for him to give that

798
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 2: and to get you involved in. And we bring these

799
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:45,879
Speaker 2: the ones that go through the whole platform. They all

800
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 2: come out a couple of times a year here to

801
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Speaker 2: the headquarters. We take them to dispensaries, labs, and obviously

802
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:52,399
Speaker 2: it'd be cool to get your by then.

803
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 3: You'll be up and running and God willing on your location.

804
00:34:55,520 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 7: Hey, you already know we already looking at it. Second

805
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 7: and third locations.

806
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:02,879
Speaker 3: I bet you are, Yeah, I bet you are.

807
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 2: You know before we leave, I do really want to

808
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 2: touch on the social equity, and to be honest with

809
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,439
Speaker 2: you guys, you know, not to get political, but I'm

810
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 2: not a fan of social welfare by definition programs, not

811
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 2: because I don't think the people that deserve it, But

812
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 2: once the government gets involved in the tax dollars start

813
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 2: rolling in, this becomes like a piggybank, and these bastards

814
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 2: will raise a half a million dollars and by the

815
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:24,800
Speaker 2: time the money gets to the community, less than a

816
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 2: couple million gets there. They'll have feasibility studies and viability

817
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 2: studies and accountants, and these guys are all making eight

818
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 2: hundred bucks an hour for a program that's supposed to

819
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 2: go to social welfare social equity. And so when I

820
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 2: first heard the word social equity, I was like, oh great,

821
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 2: here's another slush fund that the government came up with

822
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 2: just to kind of line their own coffers and to

823
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 2: have a feel good story. But one of the gals here,

824
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 2: Ruby used to work over with Real be Over at

825
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 2: his his fisilies and she's the one that first told

826
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 2: me about social equity and how she qualifies for it.

827
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,800
Speaker 2: So we've been talking about getting her into the program

828
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 2: if you don't mind in your own words, what is

829
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,879
Speaker 2: that program and how can people learn more about it?

830
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 3: And what did it do for you?

831
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Speaker 6: Guys?

832
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 7: You want to go deal, you want me to go? Well,

833
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 7: for me, it allowed me to get my license. It

834
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 7: only cost me ten thousand dollars. You know, Normally, I

835
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 7: think when the guys were doing their pre icos it

836
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 7: was in the hundreds of thousands. I'm not for sure,

837
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 7: but they allowed us to get in for ten thousand dollars,

838
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 7: and I think it cost.

839
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Speaker 6: Me about about.

840
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 7: Eight thousand a year, you know, to because I had

841
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 7: my license almost five years now. You know, it took

842
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 7: the city so long with COVID HIT and whatnot to

843
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 7: get us set up where we're at now. And every

844
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 7: year we had to pay like seven eight thousand dollars

845
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,879
Speaker 7: just to keep the license active because if you missed

846
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:44,240
Speaker 7: those payments, then your licenses council. So for me, Social

847
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 7: Equity was a blessing because I didn't have, you know,

848
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:48,919
Speaker 7: one hundred thousand dollars that I could shell out when

849
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,760
Speaker 7: I got out of prison. And I also got involved

850
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 7: with Social Equity where I went to quite a few

851
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 7: other states and help open up Detroit.

852
00:36:58,320 --> 00:36:58,880
Speaker 6: Chicago.

853
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:01,359
Speaker 3: You went as a consultant or as an equity owner

854
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:02,760
Speaker 3: in these facilities, well.

855
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 7: To speak to to to the state representatives about why

856
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 7: they need social like an advocate, why it was important

857
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 7: for social equity to uh to be implemented.

858
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 6: You know why you couldn't make it one hundred thousand.

859
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 7: I think, you know, pricing the common person out of

860
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 7: the license was wrong because if it wasn't for the

861
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 7: common people on the streets, we wouldn't be legal right now.

862
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 7: You know, if it wasn't for the guys that went

863
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 7: to prison. Uh when when when the politicians were saying,

864
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 7: you know, we was horrible. It was gonna fry your

865
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 7: brands and all that stuff for those people who stayed

866
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 7: the course and guide it to where we are today.

867
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 7: Now that it's legal, you're gonna lock them out of

868
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 7: the business and allow all these people who who incarcerated

869
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,840
Speaker 7: them take that money that they made from incarceration and

870
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:52,240
Speaker 7: invested now into the weed business.

871
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 6: I think is wrong.

872
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 2: So and you know, being a felon does it. That's

873
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,439
Speaker 2: really hard to get into the legal we'd game too,

874
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:01,399
Speaker 2: So social equity kind of overcome.

875
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 7: Celeb in over can you know at first, if you

876
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 7: was a convicted felon. They didn't want you to work

877
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:06,280
Speaker 7: in the dispensary exactly.

878
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:08,360
Speaker 6: So we were able.

879
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 3: To break that barrier, and you were you helped kind

880
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Speaker 3: of craft.

881
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 6: Absolutely.

882
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 7: I spoke in La at the at the meeting, I

883
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 7: spoke with convicted felons. I stood up and went to

884
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 7: the podium and told them about why convicted felons needed

885
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 7: to be in the business, and then if they didn't

886
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 7: let them in the business, it wasn't gonna work.

887
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 3: And I think it was a direct result of the

888
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 3: work that you did on that.

889
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 2: And I remember one of the most the things that

890
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:31,799
Speaker 2: you were most proud of last time you were here

891
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 2: was that it was a GQ magazine that had voted

892
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 2: you most influential.

893
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 7: That's qui qui Yeah, yeah, Esquire I did in the

894
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,880
Speaker 7: eightyth anniversary they did a feature story on me and

895
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 7: they said my story was the most influential story for

896
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 7: the past eighty years. So for that, I was I'm

897
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:54,760
Speaker 7: still You're still growing, Yeah, I'm still bassing.

898
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:55,839
Speaker 3: Isn't that interesting too?

899
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 2: I remember reading uh, I think it was ninety six

900
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:00,880
Speaker 2: Time magazine funny our life comes from called. Time magazine

901
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 2: said you were one of the most talked about people

902
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:04,439
Speaker 2: in ninety six.

903
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's when Gary web And it's funny you mentioned

904
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:10,839
Speaker 7: four fixture You know. Gary Webb is the one who

905
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 7: really changed the four fixture loss. Yeah, he shared it

906
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 7: at one time. I'm gonna be short, I'm gonna try

907
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 7: to At one time, you know, you could get caught

908
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 7: with a joint in your car and they could take

909
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:25,359
Speaker 7: your car Texas. No core is, no court dat, no

910
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 7: no hearings, no nothing.

911
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:28,280
Speaker 6: They just take your car. Your car is gone.

912
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 7: So Gary, Gary did a series of articles about it,

913
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 7: and he got the almost change at least here in

914
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 7: California where now if they want to forfeit your car.

915
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 6: Or your house or whatever, they have to at least

916
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 6: take you to court.

917
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 3: Yeah.

918
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:43,840
Speaker 2: You know, before we leave, I want to let you

919
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 2: talk about the dispensary, the party we're having, the address

920
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 2: and everything. But I gotta tell you, man, from the

921
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 2: bottom of my heart, I don't know that many people

922
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 2: that have gone up against I was trying to think

923
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 2: of all the three letter agencies. You got, the FBI,

924
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,720
Speaker 2: the CIA, the Free and I R S, the DA,

925
00:39:57,880 --> 00:39:58,759
Speaker 2: the ATF.

926
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 3: You've gone against corrupt and how.

927
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:07,280
Speaker 7: The hell did iron scall your legal My informant was

928
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 7: he was the illegue Wavy. So now they're they're in

929
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:12,799
Speaker 7: the they're dipping into the popforce.

930
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:15,400
Speaker 6: He's Green Corps to get him into the country.

931
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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, you got all that. Then you have

932
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Speaker 3: the the l A. P. D.

933
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Speaker 2: Which at the time was one of the most crup

934
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Speaker 2: right now obviously shared up a lot the sheriffs, I

935
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 2: mean there. Then you talk about the people in prison,

936
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:30,799
Speaker 2: you know that were kind of now you got you've

937
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,280
Speaker 2: made enemies, you know, within the court system, you've embarrassed

938
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 2: some of the people.

939
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: And didn't they have a freeway task Force?

940
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they made a Freeway task Force.

941
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 2: And and and then now you talk about the music

942
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 2: industry now too. You know, at the time, you know,

943
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 2: nobody had gone up against a legend like that to say,

944
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 2: hey man, that's my name. You know, so you think

945
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 2: of all of the ship that you overcame, and now

946
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,879
Speaker 2: you look at these guys having these sob stories of well,

947
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 2: you know, I got the bro. If you got a

948
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:57,880
Speaker 2: better story than this guy, you let me know, no,

949
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 2: don't come at me with no more excuses.

950
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,879
Speaker 7: And now we've been had the best dispensary in California.

951
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 6: That's what we're going forward.

952
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 2: Knowing how and I've only gone up a couple of

953
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 2: those agencies, you know, the SEC or whatever, and I

954
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:11,759
Speaker 2: know how tangled they can be, and how once they

955
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 2: put their target on you, it's just money to them,

956
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:15,800
Speaker 2: you know, they can't that's a notch on their belt.

957
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 2: That's all they care about. So for you to come

958
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:20,359
Speaker 2: and through all of that, come out, do what you're

959
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 2: doing and still smiling. Man, my hat's off to you, bro,

960
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you. What is the address

961
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 2: of the dispensary so we can all come here today?

962
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 1: Friday, nine zero seven for Degarmel Avenue, some Valley, California.

963
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 2: We'll make sure the guys put it up on the screen.

964
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 2: Give that to them one more time for the people

965
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 2: that are grabbing a pen.

966
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: Nine zero seven for de Garmel Avenue, some Valley, California.

967
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 3: What's the name of the dispensary?

968
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 6: Freeway Rickys And you know, you know she did a bag,

969
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:50,920
Speaker 6: she did a gift bag and win it.

970
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 1: Last night it had one hundred and eighty seven thousand views,

971
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 1: over six thousand likes, and we had a guy call

972
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:06,320
Speaker 1: his daughter he was in Atlanta. Yeah, and he called

973
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: his daughter in California and told her that she needed

974
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 1: to come to our dispensary and get a bag.

975
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 3: Oh, this is gonna be dope.

976
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 2: And you guys are doing something special for Kobe's uh

977
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 2: death anniversary.

978
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:18,240
Speaker 6: Right, we have a bong.

979
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 1: It's a bong and dab dabber and it's a Kobe Bryant.

980
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 3: Oh man, I'm gonna rig this contest. It's funny.

981
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 2: I was telling you, man, I haven't pulled the shirt

982
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:34,839
Speaker 2: out the second time I've ever worn it. Uh, it

983
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 2: was I got it at the last game that Kobe

984
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:39,760
Speaker 2: ever played into me. That was the biggest LA legend

985
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:41,360
Speaker 2: that I knew. And this is the second, you know,

986
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 2: living legend and I broke it out specifically for this today.

987
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:47,239
Speaker 2: But uh, and then we got the birthday party, which

988
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 2: also happens to be what is it like fortieth word?

989
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 6: I wish I wish it was.

990
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:53,359
Speaker 2: Something.

991
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 6: We ain't gonna tell the number. We ain't gonna tell

992
00:42:57,440 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 6: the number on the fly?

993
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 3: Where's that? I just le the party? Or how can

994
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:02,800
Speaker 3: they get tickets for the party?

995
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 7: You can go on event bright and you should be

996
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:07,840
Speaker 7: able to put in freeway Ricky Ross and it should

997
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 7: pomp up.

998
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 6: It's all white party.

999
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,760
Speaker 3: My crime with white clothes guy, it's not all white people.

1000
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 6: My crime? Who who?

1001
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:18,359
Speaker 5: Who?

1002
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:20,879
Speaker 7: Who did the deal with me? And that he set

1003
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 7: me up on he's sting the party because we haven't

1004
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:23,759
Speaker 7: had a chance to.

1005
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 3: Really wait the dude that sets you up.

1006
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 7: No, no, no, no, he didn't set me up. He

1007
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:29,720
Speaker 7: was with me, oh okay, And it was his money

1008
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:33,920
Speaker 7: that got forfeited. They got forfeited, and he's throwing their party.

1009
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 7: He's stowing the party for me because we had You know,

1010
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 7: when you when you get out on parole, you know

1011
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 7: you can associate with felas, And for us to associate

1012
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 7: with each other would have been automatic violation because they said, oh,

1013
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:46,400
Speaker 7: you guys committed crime together before we know you up

1014
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 7: to no good again. So this is the first time

1015
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 7: that we're both in a position and he wanted to

1016
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 7: throw me this party for my birthday.

1017
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,800
Speaker 3: That's really cool. Talk about the corruption back then to

1018
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:55,319
Speaker 3: another day.

1019
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 2: I remember is you're giving a speech to like felas

1020
00:43:58,120 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 2: in a jail and they're trying to violate you because

1021
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 2: you're you I with felons, and he's doing a motivational

1022
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 2: spins to felons. I'm like, man, y'all are lazy, and

1023
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 2: what's your what's your social bro if they want to

1024
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 2: find you on Instagram?

1025
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:14,240
Speaker 6: Freeway Riki on Instagram and free Rick Ross on Facebook?

1026
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 2: Cool man, And he's got man dozens of documentaries out there,

1027
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 2: obviously the ones on Netflix and uh and Prime. But

1028
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:23,239
Speaker 2: you know the book that I love isn't your more

1029
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 2: recent one. But what's the more recent book?

1030
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,800
Speaker 7: You dropped the twenty one Keys to Success that's about

1031
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 7: my first six months out of prison.

1032
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:31,879
Speaker 2: So now, man, this this interview could go on for hours.

1033
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 2: Is there anything else that y'all wanted to add before

1034
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:34,479
Speaker 2: we leave?

1035
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 1: D We're open now, but we look forward to seeing

1036
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: everybody at the grand opening.

1037
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:45,760
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, we have an art contest at this dismissed

1038
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:47,399
Speaker 7: me too, Right now, we got an art test going.

1039
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 7: Aren't contest going on on the fence. They're paying graffiti

1040
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 7: all over week community. Yeah, mirrors all over offence. You know,

1041
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:55,319
Speaker 7: we we let them beautify it.

1042
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:57,839
Speaker 6: I was like, this place is coming, No, we need

1043
00:44:57,880 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 6: something writen it up a little bit.

1044
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:01,360
Speaker 2: You know, I'm not even gonna spoiler, but there's a

1045
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 2: couple other ideas he's already got for the dispensary that

1046
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 2: we've been talking about. That's exciting, so I don't want

1047
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 2: to tease those yet. I have a feeling you're going

1048
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 2: to be back on the show again.

1049
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 3: Brother.

1050
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 2: It's been an honor to interview you again. This is

1051
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 2: something that you know, I think it's just the start.

1052
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 2: I love my future. Shit, I love it.

1053
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:17,720
Speaker 6: I love it. Here my man, guys, nice.

1054
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:19,919
Speaker 3: Man, man. This is your house. Our house is your house.

1055
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 3: You know.

1056
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:22,239
Speaker 2: This is what we This is what Blues vision was

1057
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 2: from day one when he made this, and Joe obviously

1058
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 2: being a legend of the game, but it's it's experiences

1059
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 2: like this and sharing these stories and hopefully this message

1060
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 2: helps somebody at home. Before we leave, I want to

1061
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 2: make sure to think, when you guys watch this, it

1062
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 2: looks a lot easier than it is, but there's a

1063
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 2: whole army, and this army is getting bigger every day

1064
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:40,799
Speaker 2: because our message is spreading. But of course I want

1065
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:45,240
Speaker 2: to think Blue, Joe Grande, Adrian Amy, Autumn a Mer Magazine, Mondo, Mikiela, Liza,

1066
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 2: Teddy's Show Dog, I start Sue Sun, what the hell

1067
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 2: that is? Oh, that's the new Dog, Jamiel Diego, Lupita Logan, Gary,

1068
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 2: Carly Connor, gam Beach, part Salar Brandon, t Ali Muffins,

1069
00:45:56,000 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 2: Hudson sunday Og, Skinny Ruby, Goldie Brother Pitt and of

1070
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 2: course Angela Smalls who's always in the house with you.

1071
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:05,359
Speaker 3: I wanted to thank you, guys, sincerely from the water

1072
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:05,839
Speaker 3: of my heart.

1073
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 2: You guys for listening to Fvice Friday's here on Cannabis

1074
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 2: Talk one on one with Flu and Joe Grande, the

1075
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 2: world number one source for everything cannabis.

1076
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:14,040
Speaker 3: I'm Tony Kay.

1077
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 2: You're Insider Investor and you can always find me on

1078
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 2: Instagram at the Insider Investor.

1079
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 3: I'll see you next Friday. Remember to keep that wallet tight,

1080
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 3: keep your mind right. I look forward to seeing you

1081
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 3: on the inside.

1082
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you for listening to Financial Fridays with

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00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:30,760
Speaker 4: the Insider Investor Tony Ka on Cannabis Talk one oh one,

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00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 4: the world's number one source for everything cannabis.